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Element is on max while preheating the oven, this can overcook the surface of the food before cooking even starts.
A simple example is a frozen pizza. The crust will overcook and burn before the toppings brown.
As I type, I'm eating previously frozen pizza I put in a cold oven then turned on fan mode at 180. By the time it reached temperature it was evenly cooked